[Tutor] string conversion

[Robert Clement]

Hi

I have a wxpython control in which users are intended to enter control 
characters used to define binary string delimiters,  eg. '\xBA\xBA' or 
'\t\r\n' .

The string returned by the control is a unicode version of the string 
entered by the user, eg.  u'\\xBA\\xBA'  or  u'\\t\\r\\n' .

I would like to be able retrieve the original string containing the 
escaped control characters or hex values so that I can assign it to a 
variable to be used to split the binary string.

Does anyone know of a way this can be achieved?

Thanks
Rob



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